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Remove and De-badge SAAB 9-5 Name and Model Emblems From Trunk

Not everyone wants to de-badge their car. That’s fine with me, I tend my own knitting. There is nothing wrong with the brand and model badges on the back of the 9-5, but I really do love the way the trunk looks with just the blue SAAB emblem in the center and no other identification.

It is easy to remove the chrome SAAB and 9-5 badges from the trunk ( or boot) . The results are really clean and I think it makes an improvement. The chrome letters and numbers on the SAAB trunk always looked cheap to me and they were great at collecting gunk (as you can see in my 9-5 emblem’s “before” picture). I decided to remove the offending parts, leaving only the center emblems to identify my vehicle brand.

To start the de-badging process I used my wife’s hairdryer to heat up the emblems. It only took a minute and the letters were loose enough from the heat that they could be pulled off with my fingers. You might want to use dental floss if you have some tougher chrome letters than I did. I think it helped that the foam tape underneath was eight years old.

Next I used a combination of thumbnails, WD-40, paper towels, and a plastic wedge to remove the foam tape and adhesive residue. This part isn’t hard, it just takes patience and some muscle. After all of the residue was removed there was an outline of the numbers and letters left on the trunk. I used a clear coat cleaner from Myguiar’s to remove the lines without damaging the paint. Everything came clean and there is not difference in paint from the newly exposed parts compared to the rest of the trunk.

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